хат

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

• IPA^(key): /χɑt/
• Hyphenation: хат (one syllable)

хат • (xat)

1. letter (written message)

   Ғишыҡ хаты.

   Ğişıq xatı.

   A love letter.

   Рәхмәт хаты.

   Rəxmət xatı.

   Thank-you letter.

   Минән хат көт.

   Minən xat köt.

   Wait for a letter from me.

   Иҫтәлеккә тик өсмөйөшлө һалдат хаттары ғына ҡалды.

   İśtəlekkə tik ösmöyöşlö haldat xattarı ğına qaldı.

   Only the soldier's triangle letters (=wartime blue-envelope mail) have remained as a keepsake.

   Хаттың тышында адресын күреү менән атайымдың ҡулын таныным.

   Xattıñ tışında adresın kürew menən atayımdıñ qulın tanınım.

   As soon as I saw the address on the envelope of the letter, I recognized my father's handwriting.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Alpamysha (Bashkir folk epic):

     Алпамыша, ебәргән хатына яуап-хәбәр булмағас, бик ҡайғырған, ти.

     Alpamışa, yebərgən xatına yawap-xəbər bulmağas, bik qayğırğan, ti.

     Alpamysha was very sad as there was no reply to the letter he had sent.

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

хат • (xat)

1. letter (written message)
2. literacy, reading and writing
   • 1915 October 8, “Мектеп қаржысы туралы”, in Қазақ [Qazaq]:

     Школдан шыққан балаларымыз орысша хат білсе де, қазақша хат білмейді.

     Şkoldan şyqqan balalarymyz orysşa xat bılse de, qazaqşa xat bılmeidı.

     Although our children who have graduated from schools know how to read and write in Russian, they can't read and write in Kazakh.

• хаттама (xattama)
• хатшы (xatşy), хатшылық (xatşylyq)

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *pʰat (“surface, top”), derived from Proto-Yeniseian *pʰadʲ (“flat surface”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [haˑt˧]

хат (hāt) n (plural хаттаӈ)

1. top of one's head, crown, peak; surface

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *pʰaˤtʌ (“thick, dense”, adjective), in turn derived from Proto-Yeniseian *pʰadʲ (“flat surface; pressed close”) with the *-ʌŋ (adjectival suffix) appended, which makes it related to the etymology above.^[2]

• IPA^(key): [hat˥˩]

хат (hàt)

1. thick, cramped, filled to the brim (said of a forest, crowd, or other objects packed close together)

хат (hàt)

1. cramped, tightly, densely (said of a forest, crowd, or other objects packed close together)

• Central and Northern Ket varieties use хате (hàte) instead.

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 304-305, 311
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 181

• IPA^(key): [xat]

хат • (xat) f inan pl

1. genitive plural of ха́та (xáta)

From Proto-Turkic *Kad.

хат • (xat) (definite accusative хатты, plural хаттар)

1. wind

• салгын (salgın)

Unknown.

хат • (qat)

1. again

   Synonym: эмиэ (emie)

   хат кэллэ ― qat kelle ― he came again / he returned

   хат-хат ыйытыма ― qat-qat ïyïtïma ― don't ask again

• хаттык (qattïk, “outerwear”)

From Proto-Turkic. Compare to Other turkic Kumyk къат (qat).

хат • (qat)

1. pregnant (of humans)

of humans

• мэһэйдээх (meheydeeq) (dialectal)
• оһоҕостоох (ohoğostooq) (colloquial)
• ыарахан (ïaraqan) (colloquial)

of animals

• буос (buos)
• уулаах (uulaaq)

From Proto-Turkic. Compare Mongolian хатах (xatax).

хат • (qat)

1. (intransitive) to dry out

   ардах түспэккэ, сир хатан хаалла

   ardaq tüspekke, sir qatan qaalla

   it hasn't rained (in a long time), so the earth has ended up drying out

   хам хат ― qam qat ― to completely dry out

2. (intransitive) to lose weight

   See synonyms at иин (iin).

   дэлби хатан хаалбыт ― delbi qatan qaalbït ― he ended up losing quite a lot of weight

3. (intransitive, colloquial) to wait a long time

   See synonyms at күүт (küüt).

From Proto-Turkic *kat- (“to mix, add; tie to”).

хат • (qat)

1. (transitive) to (tie in a) knot

   Antonym: өһүл (öhül, “to untangle”)

   кыһыл кумаҕынан өтүү хатар

   kïhïl kumağïnan ötüü qatar

   from the red sand he knots a rope

   (said of an eloquent man, the "red sand" being a reference to the tongue)